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Die Antwoord is a hip hop/pop/elector group hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, and they are the real deal. MTV News had a rare opportunity to chat with the band about their music and sound, getting dropped by their record label and turning down a tour with "shitty" Lady Gaga.

"Our stuff is like f*cking hardcore like solid heavyweight! We want it to be like a secret mind-f*ck! People are like what the f*ck is this the first time they hear it. We like making pop music, but we like making hardcore music at the same time, mixing them, but they've got, like, soul. It's not like weak, superficial sh*t. You know?" says lead singer Ninja (real name Watkin Tudor Jones).

Although the band was signed to Interscope Records, they left the label after they claim the executives tried to turn them into something they were not, in the vein of "shitty" artists like "Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas".

"I think they though we were just like a weird, strange act, then like 'Let's just let them have their fun for a while, and then when it comes to their second album we'll have them play games'". says Ninja, clearly hitting a nerve. "They were looking at Lady Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas and that type of shitty pop music, and were thinking we could like twist into that."

So, the band wouldn't call themselves fans of Mother Monster, then?

"Lady Gaga asked us to tour with her and we were like, um, no thanks."source

I hold creativity to be separate. As an artist, I can effectively learn how to create certain effects and relate them to my work.

But I am not creative in the least. I can't come up with my own ideas, but I can do realism and imitate styles of other artists as inspiration.

All artists have inspiration, and some take it from others. Actually, a lot of artists take inspiration from other artists who took inspiration from other artists and so on.

The cycle continues~ But some of the ideas that Gaga and her team come up with are pretty creative and things I haven't seen before, while others are things that are directly influenced by something else.

I mean, it's admirable that they didn't want to change their sound, but what's with putting other people down? You'd think any "real musician" would get that there are hundreds of different types of music and they're all good in their own right. To say their music is any deeper than Gaga's is hilarious because they're both created to sell to a certain group of people.

I hope Gaga steals from Yo-landi again to get her back for these horrible words!

look, i know "lol what a troll" is a lot of people's favorite respons when their faves throw shade, but die antwoord is one of those rare instances where they are literally trolling. that is what die antwoord is - trolling, satire, and over-all ridiculousness. and from what i've seen, they don't drop character for interviews. and that's what ninja is, a character.